from the nintendon't dept We all should know by now that Nintendo is incredibly protective of its IP. When it comes to anything having to do with Pokémon specifically, all the more so. While they would tell you that they’re just protecting their IP, the end result is that some of the biggest Pokémon fans out there that just want to do some fun things that represent no harm to Nintendo get shut down by threats, lawyers, or copyright strikes. Take the YouTube series called PokeNational Geographic , for instance. While this YouTube series has been pushing out faux nature documentary videos about Pokémon for several years, the channel behind it just got hit with a bunch of copyright strikes from Nintendo . In a video  posted to an alternate channel , Elious says that Nintendo of America suddenly issued numerous strikes on large batches of his videos, all in the space of 12 hours.…